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Cheers, Sam [] 01:36, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (| talk)

Hi, removing the black border would mean cropping the image, and the Van Vechten Estate asked not to do it. I wouldn't do it. Ary29 11:14, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

At Talk:Pierre Louis Roederer someone says the image you added to Pierre Louis Roederer isn't Roederer. Could you please follow up? -- Jmabel | Talk 20:07, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

The answer is on the talk page. Kelson 28 June 2005 13:43 (UTC)

The original uploader and author was Fubar Obfusco (talk · contribs). I assume you ask because it's now at Commons and that info is missing. That information should have been transfered to Commons when it was reuploaded, so thanks for catching it. Dmcdevit·t 05:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thx a lot. Kelson 20:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I saw you replaced Image:Fouquet Madonna.jpg with this Image:Jean Fouquet 005.jpg image. Do you know how the picture looks for real? Since the version you replaced it with doesn't look nearly as good as the original one. Garion96 (talk) 08:18, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's sound to be a good argument. I have done the necessary to keep this version of the painting in our database. Best regards Kelson 08:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw you moved the en.wikipedia version also to Commons. Thanks, Garion96 (talk) 08:30, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kelson. I have been directed to you by a 'round about route' due to a help query I posted. I am trying to convert the wikipedia xml into html for displaying on our web site. For various reasons running the mediawiki software/apache server is not straightforward to set up and not supported on our network setup (systems support dont want us to do this). I have been trying to use the Text::MediawikiFormat perl module which works reasonably well but misses a lot of fiddly xml markup. Do you know of anything more generic that doesn't require us to run the Apache server -- we did look for a .xslt style sheet in the mediawiki software but couldn't find one. Is there any chance you could help with this? My apologise if you know nothing about this Jennifer 12:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jennifer, producing an HTML version of Wikipédia is not easy. How much articles do you want to statified ? Do you know that : http://static.wikipedia.org/. Otherwise you have to use this tools : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MWDumper Kelson 14:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kelson, thanks for this info. I looked into the static downloads and they would be great and easy for us to use but (1) unfortunately we are only interested in ~600 wiki pages max and the size of these static downloads is possibly more than we have space for and (2) I dont think the static pages will be updated often enough for us just now.

I looked at the MWDumper: am I correct in thinking this extracts a desired set of pages from the Wikipedia DB downloads and I assume I need to have the whole media wiki software up and running to use it? Could you explain a little how it works? Sorry for the simple questions Im not very familiar with this sort of thing. I have plenty of people here who can help me set things up when I know what it is i need to set up Jennifer 10:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you only need a few hundreds pages, the static dump is not the best choice. The solution would be to set up a wiki (with Mediawiki), download the SQL dump, upload only the articles you want in the DB (with MWDumper filtering features) and finaly, find a way to get the pictures (not trivial, but makeable). If you want the whole article collection as HTML, there is a script in mediawiki/maintenance to extract one from the online wiki. In any case that is a not easy job, especialy for people who do not know much about Mediawiki : they are a lot of details to check. I just want to warn you. If I can ask : does that selection is for a commercial purpose or not ? and if not what is your planning ? Kelson 12:08, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kelson. Thank you for your reply and help. I will look into us setting up what you have suggested. Not sure our systems support are happy about me running the MediaWiki software but if its the only way for us to do this im sure we can sort it.

No this isnt for commercial reasons. My interest is to import Wikipedia RNA annotations to our database Rfam and encourage our user community to edit/contribute to them. I have spent a bit of time talking to the people at the WikiProject:Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikipedia:WikiProject_Molecular_and_Cellular_Biology/Proposals about what we plan to do (you can check this out on the MCB proposals page) and no one there has indicated there is anything unusual or illegal about this in terms of copyright or GFDL. We just want to import relevant pages for our Rfam families, strip out the <text> </text> section so our users can view it (it will be clearly labelled as a wikipedia annotation) and we will direct our users back to wikipedia to edit it. I think we already checked that this doesnt violate any licensing issues. Please let me know if you think it might and I will look into this further but so far no one had indicated so. Thanks for you comments about how to go about this. I will look into what you have suggested. I may get back to you Jennifer 15:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jennifer, there is no problem to do what you want to do - if you do it correctly. Other info : after preparing and releasing the WP0.5 CD (in particulary the HTML dump), I wanted to provide a common system which would provide, for every selection project, the ability to prepare easily an HTML dump. I think, that is exactly what you need. It is not finished yet, but it start to look like something. You can take a look at http://tools.kiwix.org (still in dev.). If you do not achieve to do it by yourself, maybe this plateform can help you. Best regards Kelson 16:48, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to Golden-capped Parakeet. Thank you. Martial BACQUET 20:29, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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		For your work on getting the 1.0 bot working again, much appreciated...Jokulhlaup (talk) 16:06, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello -- I have been trying to use the WP 1.0 bot for a few days, and I get a 502 Bad Gateway Error instead of a results page. Do you know why it is not working?

https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Feminism&importance=High-Class&quality=Stub-Class

Kenirwin/(talk) 14:01, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kelson: I'm at your service to help with the WP 1.0 Bot. I've started looking at the source code and basically I was wondering a few things:

• Is there a list of known issues/bugs/feature request/work items/tickets somewhere that need to be done?
• Does the bot use the MW API or some other way of reading/writing articles and talk pages?
• How should we best co-ordinate our efforts? Over wiki talk pages? I've sent you an email through the wikipedia email user feature, and included my personal email in the contents.

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• Is the current state of the bot "routine maintenance", "emergency maintenance", "ready for a re-write" or even "working relatively smoothly"? Or none of the above?
• Is there any documentation outside of the docstrings in the source code and the sub pages on wikipedia?

Thanks, I look forward to working with you/helping you.

Hi @Audiodude:, thank you very much again for your help proposal. The git repo is here https://github.com/openzim/wikimedia_wp1_bot and "no" there is not documentation so far I know. Like you can see there is not a lot of tickets open. Maybe we should start to create proper tickets from our ideas and ideas written (in the past) here. @Walkerma:, it would be really helpful if you would write a document where your thoughts and hope for next generation are gathered. What I want to avoid is that we just rewrite the same software in a better way. Anyway, the soft has to be rewritten, it is in "emergency maintenance". @Audiodude:, we need to make a video-conf to know each-other and start to setup an action plan. As a remark, I recommend to have a look to Kiwix/openZIM and what we are doing to better understand why this project is essential for Kiwix (not only for Wikipedia). Usually, I'm online on IRC on #kiwix and #openzim on Freenode. Kelson (talk) 16:07, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

BTW Kelson, I meant to say: Congratulations on your new upgrade to Kiwix! It sounds like it was a lot of work, but it will be well worthwhile and it will make a lot of people happy!

As for the post, that's excellent - thank you! I'd love to put together a document for deciding on the "next generation" bot. I realise you may just want a small technical meeting (which needn't involve me), but to help us write the planning document I'd want more people involved. Could a group of us talk together, to map out exactly what is needed for "WP1.0 Bot Version 3.0"? My problem is that I don't know the technical side well enough to ask the right questions, though I can certainly articulate the needs for the 1.0 project, and somewhat for the WikiProjects. Could we ask some active editors to join us - we need to make sure that the WikiProject editor users have their needs fully met, because they are the main users of the bot's information. I'd like to invite User:JoeHebda - he's the person who reported many of the problems and tracked them, as well as User:Brad101 and User:Ganeshk, who have also reported or checked on bugs recently. After the meeting, I can write up what we agreed, and hopefully you can translate that into a plan you can implement. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 16:29, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I am contacting you in relation of User:WP 1.0 bot as you are shown to be the creator. Unfortunately User:WP 1.0 bot has not been updating Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Formula One articles by quality log (this may also be the case with other wikiprojects but I haven't checked). Can you please look to resolve the issue. Thanks, SSSB (talk) 22:38, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@SSSB: - While the malfunctioning WP1.0bot is blocked there is an alternate process here that may help you. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 16:53, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings (Kelson—audiodude—Walkerma). Wondering about an ETA for WP1.0bot to begin processing daily updates? Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 17:26, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, Kelson (talk · contribs). I'd like you (or your bot) to assess several new poultry articles. They can be found at Category:Poultry task force articles by importance. Thanks so much, 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 12:13, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Martin_Urbanec Sorry to come back so lately to you but I just read your message now. Will do the necessary to clarify and possibibly improve the situation (if not already fixed). Thank you for your message and patience. Kelson (talk) 08:36, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Kelson,

I was going to post a question at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index and then noticed that there are a few questions there that have not been replied to. Should another editor be monitoring this page so they can answer questions? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:53, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still waiting for some answers to questions I have about this bot, especially how to turn it off when WikiProjects die. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:32, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We are quite busy with developping the code base and tool which explains our lack of feedback. I can not really answer you as well, as these days I'm just monitoring the project at high level and not involved on a daily base. Give us please a bit of time to come back. I don't expect you to open a ticket at https://github.com/openzim/wp1, but if you really want to speed-up things, this might help. Kelson (talk) 07:26, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi @Kelson,

Lovely to watch your bot running here. But i have an issue in many wikis, other than en.wiki, which still not have this bot running, specially id.wiki and ban.wiki. Can you make it running also for other wikis? I am not geek in programming so don't know what to do. Lovely if you can teach me how to do it or just upgrade your tools in toolforge so can add another wikis will really appreciate. Thanks in advance. Joseagush (talk) 12:00, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Kelson. Can you please allow us to use your User:Wp 1.0 bot for UzWiki as well? The capabilities of the bot were also necessary for us. Thanks for your reply Laziz Baxtiyorov (talk) 11:33, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]